SpyCast
SpyCast
SpyCast, the official podcast of the International Spy Museum, is a journey into the shadows of international espionage. Each week, host Sasha Ingber brings you the latest insights and intriguing tales from spies, secret agents, and covert communicators, with a focus on how this secret world reaches us all in our everyday lives. Tune in to discover the critical role intelligence has played throughout history and today. Brought to you from Airwave, Goat Rodeo, and the International Spy Museum. The Spy Museum does not endorse, approve, or support the opinions stated by guest speakers. Statements made by speakers do not represent the position or opinion of the International Spy Museum.
Episodes
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Mar 13, 2018 • 53min
Breaking Cover: An Interview with Michele Rigby Assad
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with former CIA operations officer Michele Rigby Assad to discuss her career in intelligence, and her new book Breaking Cover: My Secret Life in the CIA and What It Taught Me about What's Worth Fighting For. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 6, 2018 • 58min
Operation Chaos: An Interview with Matthew Sweet
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with author Matthew Sweet, who has written on one of the most…extraordinary topics of the Cold War. His book, Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves, is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 27, 2018 • 56min
The Peter Earnest “Exit Interview”
SPY Historian sat down with recently retired International Spy Museum Executive Director Peter Earnest to discuss his career in intelligence, his time with the Museum, and his thoughts on life moving forward . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 20, 2018 • 1h 19min
The Doomsday Machine: An Interview with Daniel Ellsberg
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down (remotely) with Daniel Ellsberg, who is best known for his release of the Pentagon Papers to the public in 1971. He is also the author of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, which details his early life as a specialist on the command and control of nuclear weapons, nuclear war plans, and crisis decision-making. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 13, 2018 • 1h 5min
Technology and Human Intelligence: An Interview with Paula Doyle
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Paula Doyle, former Associate Deputy Director of Operations at CIA, where she oversaw worldwide HUMINT operations and activities that required the use of air, land, maritime, space-based and cyber technologies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 6, 2018 • 1h 3min
Spy Watching: An Interview with Loch Johnson
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with political scientist and professor Loch Johnson, whose decade-long career in and out of the intelligence world has culminated in a new book, Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 30, 2018 • 55min
The Saboteur: An Interview with Paul Kix
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Paul Kix, deputy editor at ESPN the Magazine, and author of the book The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 23, 2018 • 48min
Destination Casablanca: An Interview with Meredith Hindley
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with writer and historian Meredith Hindley to discuss her new book Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 16, 2018 • 59min
The Red Web: An Interview with Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan to discuss Russian intelligence, their security services, and the Russian use of the internet both internally and externally Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 9, 2018 • 1h 1min
American Radical: An Interview with Kevin Maurer
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Kevin Maurer, coauthor of the bestseller No Easy Day, and now coauthor of the new book, American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent, which he cowrote with undercover FBI agent Tamer Elnoury . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
